"I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir."

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Source : "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.

Osman Baydemir

#People Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Apologizing Quotes

“From the end spring new beginnings.”
“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
“When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.”
“The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.”
“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”
“If you can't measure it, you can't change it.”
“Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer”
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”

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